A Quiet Belief In Angels has sold over 2.5 million copies since release, and has been translated into twenty-six languages including French, Japanese, Norwegian, Lithuanian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

A Quiet Belief In Angels is written from the perspective of Joseph Vaughan, growing up in a rural community in early 1940s Georgia.

Afterwards, a serial killer begins committing a spree of murders, abducting and brutally killing young girls.

Joseph and his friends form a group known as "the Guardians" devoting themselves to protecting the town's girls from any further harm.

It was shortlisted for the Barry Award for best British crime fiction 2008, the 7th Prix Du Polar Européen 2008 of the weekly French magazine Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur Crime Writing Prize 2008 and the Quebec Booksellers' Prize 2008.